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Where Snowbirds Fly South for the Winter
Where Snowbirds Fly South for the Winter
In our continuing series, we offer a closer look at community newspapers around the country and the people who work the local beat.
King Features Weekly
Oct 19, 2015
A Passion for Community Deep in the Heart of Texas
A Passion for Community Deep in the Heart of Texas
What community newspapers are really up to all around the country. (The first in a series.)
King Features Weekly
Sep 22, 2015
Where A Community and Its Newspaper is One Extended Family
Where A Community and Its Newspaper is One Extended Family
In our continuing series, a closer look at community newspapers around the country and the people who work the local beat.
King Features Weekly
Nov 25, 2015
Local News
Ghost Town Extra
Ghost Town Extra
Local news is nowhere on the Web, and it’s our fault. The good news is that the problem is also the fix
King Features Weekly
Apr 9, 2015
What’s Ahead for Community Newspapers?
What’s Ahead for Community Newspapers?
King Features Weekly Service has been in the features business for a long time — since the 1980s — and our parent organization, King…
King Features Weekly
Mar 19, 2015
Listening to community newspapers with Walt Potter
Listening to community newspapers with Walt Potter
A retired newspaper exec looks to give back to the community newspapers that raised him with an ear to the ground for change.
King Features Weekly
Jul 15, 2015
After The Fall
After The Fall
Wall Street leads the retreat from Main Street’s community news trust
King Features Weekly
Jul 29, 2015
Nothing But Blue Seas (Nothing At All)
Nothing But Blue Seas (Nothing At All)
Digital disruption is killing journalism’s first loyalty to its community.
King Features Weekly
Aug 5, 2015
Local news in the atomic age
Local news in the atomic age
Structured journalism is dramatically revising the first draft of history
King Features Weekly
Nov 4, 2015
Filtering The Howl
Filtering The Howl
The way we consume information is turning us into a fatberg of distraction. Is there a way to turn the tide?
King Features Weekly
Sep 1, 2015
Eight Ways to Reclaim The Local News Desert
Eight Ways to Reclaim The Local News Desert
Hire journalists. Invite the community in. Mobilize the hyperlocal. Understand that audience is more complex than ever. Go for your big…
King Features Weekly
Jul 21, 2015
You’ve Got A Friend
You’ve Got A Friend
Libraries are more like newspapers than ever — just when newspapers could sure use a friend
King Features Weekly
Jun 16, 2015
Optics For A Five-Year Plan
Optics For A Five-Year Plan
Looking for future success, newspapers learn about customer lifetime value (CLTV)
King Features Weekly
Jun 9, 2015
Sizing Up the Local News Ecosystem
Sizing Up the Local News Ecosystem
New metrics for measuring local news are showing that the future is indeed widely distributed — and counting many communities out
King Features Weekly
Jun 2, 2015
Where Does the “Community” Fit in “News”?
Where Does the “Community” Fit in “News”?
A hot debate in journalism whether local newspapers have a future — and if their communities are vanishing with them
King Features Weekly
May 7, 2015
Hope for the Unhappily Disrupted
Hope for the Unhappily Disrupted
Penelope Muse Abernathy’s Saving Community Journalism
King Features Weekly
Mar 25, 2015
News Without Newspapers
News Without Newspapers
Sometimes you don’t know what you have until it’s gone
King Features Weekly
May 26, 2015
Archive
The Archivist’s Blues
The Archivist’s Blues
Just when an exploding digital universe hovers at our fingertips, it is too fast fading from sight
King Features Weekly
Apr 16, 2015
The Newspaper Archivist’s Good News
The Newspaper Archivist’s Good News
Newspapers write the “first draft of history” — let’s make sure that moment is preserved
King Features Weekly
Apr 23, 2015
Born-Digital News: It’s Not Dead Yet
Born-Digital News: It’s Not Dead Yet
It has been falling fast into the memory hole, but there are signs that’s tomorrow’s news will be saved
King Features Weekly
Jun 25, 2015
Memory’s Rainbow
Memory’s Rainbow
Confessions of An Aging News Hole Dodger
King Features Weekly
May 18, 2015
The Archivist’s Shoes
The Archivist’s Shoes
Can you manage your own personal footprint?
King Features Weekly
Apr 28, 2015
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